The Guardian • poverty
Human rights start from poverty alleviation
Absolute poverty in Chinese society has been eliminated.
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Issue #2031
Why America is alarmed
Every five years, the delegates of the Communist Party of China (CPC) – 96 million members – meet to elect its top leaders and set...
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Issue #2015
Canada: Dignity in death is no cure for indignity in life
At the end of April, CTV published a news item about a 31-year-old Toronto woman who was nearing final approval for a medically assisted death....
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Issue #2046
IWD SA
In her welcome at Fidel’s, a venue belonging to the Workers’ Club, Sally Mitchell, president of the Port Adelaide Workers’ Club and the Port Adelaide...
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Issue #2046
Overproduction – Crazy capitalism
In 1867, Karl Marx wrote of capitalism’s inherent tendency towards overproduction and underconsumption (not enough goods reaching those that need them). No more vulgar example...
Read moreAll the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask
In the 1990s and 2000s conventional Western wisdom was that China had long abandoned socialism.
Read moreThe Menzies years
The Liberal Party has created an image of 1950s Australia as a golden age of order and prosperity under the government of Robert Menzies (1949–1966)....
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Issue #2008
The Washington consensus and growing World poverty
According to the recent World Bank report, From Crisis to Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Recovery (2021), the Third World is facing great hardships with increasing...
Read moreNational crisis for Australian renters
On census night in 2016, an estimated 116,000 people were experiencing homelessness across Australia.
Read moreThe “new normal” life with COVID, two years on
New data shows that the cost of living has increased 3.5 per week in the past year and poverty is once more on the increase...
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Issue #2029
Anti-poverty protest – Adelaide
Poverty is about people struggling, and becoming sick, less employable and ultimately homeless, especially if survival on “jobseeker” is involved. These were the stories of...
Read moreRoll over, roll over for $43.57 a day!
When I imagine cabinet ministers meeting with stakeholders to discuss JobSeeker, I see a bunch of terrifying posh people pushing reports and numbers aside for the night to drink, laugh and celebrate their insidious genius.
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Issue #2030
Canberra Branch attends PRC Poverty Alleviation Seminar
If you’re looking to alleviate poverty, there’s no better place to look for guidance than the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Their sheer volume of...
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Issue #2053
WEASEL WORDS
Working poor This term comes to us from whatever combination of spin doctor and focus group that gets words into Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s mouth....
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Issue #1964
Contribution by CPA General Secretary Andrew Irving at the World Symposium For Marxist Political Parties
In China, the CPC has made many outstanding political, social, economic and defence achievements for its people
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Issue #2015
The devil in the details of the “housing crisis”
In part one, we revealed that approximately one-fifth of households surveyed by the 2021 Census own nearly fifty per cent of the total amount of...
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Issue #2031
Class war budget
The budget, delivered on 25th October, is set in the context of a looming global recession, ongoing wars, rocketing prices, extreme weather events, famine, and...
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Issue #2050
DINGO
The governments of ten Latin American and Caribbean countries met to discuss the best ways to jointly counter the inflationary wave sweeping the world which...
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Issue #2046
Budget must tackle housing crisis
Housing campaign Everybody’s Home says renters on the lowest incomes will still struggle to make ends meet with the federal government’s meagre rise in Centrelink...
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Issue #2015
Policy-induced violence
At least one child is killed by a parent every month; one woman is murdered every week by a partner or former partner; another hospitalised...
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Issue #2071
Poverty and homelessness on the Sunshine Coast
The Sunshine Coast is two hours drive north of Brisbane. It is a collection of towns and farms extending from its famous beaches to the...
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Issue #2053
“We stand shoulder to shoulder”
The World Federation of Trade Unions, the militant, class-oriented voice, representing 105 million workers who live, work, and struggle in 133 countries of the 5...
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Issue #2048
Inequality deepens
New research shows one million people in NSW are living in poverty. With Western Sydney going backwards while Eastern Sydney is improving, inequality across the...
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Issue #2054
Cancel Stage 3 tax cuts!
Over the past two decades the bottom 90 per cent of Australians on average have received only seven per cent of economic growth per person...
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Issue #2065
FUND PUBLIC HOUSING!
The housing crisis continues to deepen with an estimated shortfall of 640,000 houses. Recent interest rate rises are still to take their toll on home...
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Issue #2057
Existing on $13 a day
Young renters on youth allowance sharing a typical two bedroom flat have only $13 a day to cover food, transport, medicine, utilities, and other costs,...
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